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to their requests, the shipments in question are withheld from return by postmasters 

 notwithstanding the instructions of the Department that all packages of prohibited 

 nursery stock received in the mails from abroad shall be appropriately indorsed and 

 returned to origin immediately. 



Postmasters are enjoined, therefore, to comply strictly with the instructions 

 referred to by declining to withhold from return any prohibited nursery stock in 

 order to afford an opportunity to the importer to communicate with the Depart- 

 ment with the view of having an exception made in any particular case. 



The term " nursery stock " as applied to the prohibition in question includes all 

 growing or living plants, seeds and other plant products, for propagation, except 

 field, vegetable and flower seeds. It includes also bulbs, roots and tubers and, 

 with the exceptions noted, the seeds of all trees, shrubs or other plants. The only 

 plants or plant products excepted from the prohibition are those ordered by, or 

 intended for, and addressed to the " Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C," 



In this connection, reference is had to the notice of this office printed on page 

 2 of the Postal Guide (supplement) for January, 1914, and to the notice on pages 

 129 and 130 of the Postal Guide for July, 1914. 



The widest possible publicity should be given to this notice". 



Joseph Stewart, 

 Second Assistant Postmaster-General. 



ALABAMA. — A signed copy of inspection certificate must be filed with the 

 secretary of the Alabama State Board of Horticulture, and an Alabama 

 license obtained, also Alabama tags. Nursery and dealers' license fee, $10.00. 

 Agents must obtain license through their principal. License fee for agents, 

 $1.00. Dealers must designate nurseries from whom stock handled is pur- 

 chased. A tag must be attached to every separate order or lot of nursery 

 stock delivered in the State. Tags are furnished at cost: first one hundred, 85 

 cents postpaid; five hundred, $1.60; one thousand, $2.20, sent collect by 

 express. 



All scions and bud sticks must be properly fumigated. The following in- 

 sects and fungous diseases are quarantined against: San Jose scale, new 

 peach scale, woolly aphis, crown gall, black knot, peach yellows, peach and 

 plum rosette, citrus canker, white fly, gypsy moth and browntail moth. Trees 

 liable to scale infection must be properly fumigated with hydrocyanic acid 

 gas. All kinds of citrus trees are quarantined except Satsuma orange and 

 Kumquat. The two latter may be shipped from localities free from citrus 

 canker upon obtaining special citrus permit, and upon compliance with the 

 special rules oovering shipments of such trees and other hosts of white fly, 

 or citrus canker, which is, that such trees be completely defoliated and 

 dipped (except roots) in 6-4-50 Bordeaux mixture. 



Special citrus permit tags are supplied at $1.00 a hundred; 50 cents a hun- 

 dred for additional lots. These must be used in addition to regular tags on 

 all shipments containing citrus trees. Prof. Ernest Walker, State Horticul- 

 turist, Auburn, Ala. 



ARIZONA. — Nursery stock shipped into the State must be prominently 

 labeled with the name and the address of both the shipper and the consignee, 

 and must be accompanied by a valid certificate of inspection or a copy of 

 such certificate. Shipments into the State, consisting of or containing plants 

 not grown in the locality from which shipment was made, must, in addition, 

 specify where such plants were grown. 



